Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-10 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 10 May 2006, Justin Findlay wrote: + On 5/10/06, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Konsole. Allows me to set a background. Nothing fancy, just a very light yellow wich I find appropriate for my eyesight. Also allows to customize text colors (directories, symlinks,etc). These two

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide

2006-05-04 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 3 May 2006, Zac Slade wrote: On Wednesday 03 May 2006 16:04, Jorge Almeida wrote: But I won't be able to use svc to interact with the child. That's why I feel I must reformulate the whole setup. If you need deeper interaction with a child process then you might need to look outside

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] kill a child and suicide

2006-05-04 Thread Jorge Almeida
imagine why it's different to you. Is /bin/sh a symlink to /bin/bash, or are you using another shell? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] kill a child and suicide

2006-05-03 Thread Jorge Almeida
want (as reply of Hans-Werner). Thanks. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide

2006-05-03 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 3 May 2006, Christopher Fisk wrote: It's just bash scripting, just tell bash to exec child.sh in the background. /path/to/child.sh Nope. I need the child in the foreground, so that its output and stderr goes to multilog. Thanks, Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] kill a child and suicide

2006-05-03 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 3 May 2006, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: * Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] [03/05/06 19:30]: On Wed, 3 May 2006, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: You can use 'kill 0' to send a signal to your own process group. Something like this: #!/bin/sh trap 'kill 0;exit' TERM echo before ( sleep 30; echo inside

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide

2006-05-03 Thread Jorge Almeida
(I think); once the latter exits, I don't think the other process will be accessible. Thanks, Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide

2006-05-03 Thread Jorge Almeida
. It doesn't exit. It's just a shell built-in wait (no, in fact, it is a glibc built-in wait). The file handles are kind of dup'ed, so multilog should work just fine. Thanks again. Writing to this list is never a waste of time! -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide

2006-05-02 Thread Jorge Almeida
. Is there some way to achieve this? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide

2006-05-02 Thread Jorge Almeida
: trap 'kill pid of child; exit 1' TERM But how to find out the PID of child? What would be convenient is a way to send signals recursively to a process and its children. Maybe I'm trying to solve a problem with wrong tools... Thanks, Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide

2006-05-02 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 2 May 2006, Zac Slade wrote: You can find the PID of the last backgrouned process using the bash variable $! The child is not backgrounded! So something like: subprocess $pid=$! Using trap along with maybe setting alarms should get you what you want. Based on the suggestions of

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide

2006-05-02 Thread Jorge Almeida
*might* reuse the PID afterwards and might get sig-TERM-ed until resetting the signal handler again. Probably a minor, depending on the script's usage. Precisely the kind of thing I want to avoid. I think I need to reformulate my setup. Thanks. Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

[gentoo-user] firefox+gmail crash

2006-04-06 Thread Jorge Almeida
Firefox is crashing when I'm reading a message in Gmail and I click some link in the message. Anyone else has been experiencing this? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox+gmail crash

2006-04-06 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, louis brazeau wrote: I've been using Firefox (www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0.7-r4) for a while and I don't have any problems with links in Gmail. Which version are you using ? Precisely the same as you. My system is updated (stable version). I can right-click and open

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox+gmail crash

2006-04-06 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, JimD wrote: Try starting Firefox from a command line in safe mode: firefox -safe-mode Nope. Did that and it keeps crashing. The URL is http://pyropus.ca/personal/writings/12-steps-to-qmail-list-bliss.html Tried with Konqueror and it works... Jorge --

[gentoo-user] NVIDIA updating weirdness

2006-03-25 Thread Jorge Almeida
build error, NOT this status message. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] NVIDIA updating weirdness

2006-03-25 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Dave Jones wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote on 03/25/06 10:00: $ cat /etc/portage/package.mask media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7676 media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.7676-r1 nvidia-kernel-1.0.8178-r3 is the current ~x86 version, and works fine with gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] NVIDIA updating weirdness

2006-03-25 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Dave Jones wrote: With the you're masking out *all* versions *higher* that 1.0.7676-r1, which is probably not what you want. If you want to mask out a specific version, do that with an = in front of the version. OK, so I simply don't need a line in package.mask,

[gentoo-user] [OT] Passing env variable to ssh?

2006-03-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
be just command=~/bin/mycommand public-key and the ssh command would be myvar=whatever ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./bin/mycommand (the program itself would use the value of $myvar) Any idea? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Passing env variable to ssh?

2006-03-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:14:33 + (WET) Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want something like this: myvar=whatever ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./bin/mycommand $myvar [...] This does not work, because remotebox doesn't know about $myvar

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Passing env variable to ssh?

2006-03-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Mariusz P?kala wrote: Stdin? echo $myvar | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./bin/mycommand ? Yup. Thanks! -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] redundant Perl module?

2006-02-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
, are the modules included in the standard packages? (I did check that none of these packages is installed off portage...) -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] LUKS

2006-02-23 Thread Jorge Almeida
... Confusing? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] kde panel hiding behind something...

2006-02-15 Thread Jorge Almeida
Center -- Desktop -- Panels? There's no right-click menu on it, no dragging, it just sits there blankly... Strange, but maybe it will respond to right-click after change of place... -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] emerge troubles

2006-02-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
) but it didn't report errors last time I checked, not too long ago. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge troubles

2006-02-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote: cc1: out of memory allocating 8579592 bytes after a total of 7716864 bytes Swap not enabled? Also, emerge --info output would be helpful. Swap was enabled. $ emerge info Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2005.1

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge troubles

2006-02-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Zac Slade wrote: On Tuesday 14 February 2006 17:43, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote: parser error : out of memory error /bin/sh: line 1: 3831 Segmentation fault Doesn't look good. :( No it doesn't, but there has to be a reason why he's

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge troubles

2006-02-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
build error, NOT this status message. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge troubles

2006-02-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Richard Fish wrote: Also, to test whether your system can make large memory allocations, you can do: python -c s='x'*(4*(1024*1024)) python -c s='x'*(8*(1024*1024)) python -c s='x'*(16*(1024*1024)) python -c s='x'*(32*(1024*1024)) python -c s='x'*(64*(1024*1024)) python -c

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge troubles

2006-02-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Richard Fish wrote: Any chance this is a resource limit issue? ulimit -l -m Nope... $ ulimit -l -m max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 32 max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited Jorge -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge troubles

2006-02-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Richard Fish wrote: Or better: ulimit -a $ ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) 58593 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited pending signals (-i) 8191 max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 32 max

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge troubles

2006-02-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Richard Fish wrote: On 2/14/06, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Richard Fish wrote: data seg size (kbytes, -d) 58593 virtual memory (kbytes, -v) 58593 These are preventing any process spawned by this user from allocating

Re: [gentoo-user] ...startup information on screen...

2006-02-10 Thread Jorge Almeida
directory ... [ ok ] * Coldplugging input devices ... [ ok ] * Coldplugging isapnp devices ... [ ok ] What about everything from Coldplugging pnp devices ... to the end (net, local, etc.) ? Is this normal? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] dead USB card?

2006-01-31 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Richard Fish wrote: On 1/28/06, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Richard Fish wrote: It looks like the ohci and ehci drivers are fighting over the card. You don't need both, so I would disable ohci in your kernel configuration and see

Re: [gentoo-user] dead USB card?

2006-01-28 Thread Jorge Almeida
to the card. The strange output of lspci is the same whether the scanner is connected or not. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] dead USB card?

2006-01-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1 ipt_owner: pid, sid and command matching not supported anymore agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at :00:00.0. agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at :00:00.0 into 4x mode agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at :01:00.0 into 4x mode -- Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A New Linux Way

2006-01-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Mark Shields wrote: Can we let this thread die? Please? Why? Can you remember a funnier one, ever? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A New Linux Way

2006-01-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Mark Shields wrote: the parent poster never replied anyways. Yes he did, but his reply came disguised as a new thread Sorry about the spam. The contents of which didn't suggest repentance, BTW. Cheers, Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-10 Thread Jorge Almeida
talk about uniting all [other (?)] distributions and becoming a Company. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-10 Thread Jorge Almeida
? My limited domain of the English language doesn't make me the best judge, but some phrases make me wonder about how young the webmaster is, assuming that English is his first language... -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

2005-11-23 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Richard Fish wrote: Ok, do dmesg and /proc/partitions agree that there is a partition there? If not, then the problem is that the kernel is not recognizing No... your partition table. I would suggest: insert the key dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 remove

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

2005-11-23 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Richard Fish wrote: On 11/23/05, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this time. This is just totally unreliable. I guess I'll boot from KNOPPIX, to see whether it may be a kernel problem... Yes, do that. And if it works I guess you will need to start comparing

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

2005-11-20 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Richard Fish wrote: According to the dmesg output you posted earlier, your memory stick is not partitioned. This is ok, some are, some are not. You can confirm this by taking a look at /proc/partitions when it is inserted, or the output of fdisk -l. So, only getting

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

2005-11-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Richard Fish wrote: I'm not sure what the problem could be then. Maybe something in your kernel configuration. Could you post the output of: grep =[ym] /usr/src/linux/.config CONFIG_X86=y CONFIG_MMU=y CONFIG_UID16=y CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP=y

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

2005-11-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Donnerstag, 17. November 2005 17:19 schrieb ext Jorge Almeida: Did it. Upon reboot, I had /dev/external_hd and /dev/external_hd1, but only /dev/plextor_memstick (i.e., no mountable /dev/plextor_memstick1). I unplugged the stick and turned off

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

2005-11-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: $ mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/pen mount: /dev/sdb1: can't read superblock This looks like artifacts from an old, static /dev (RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=yes in /etc/conf.d/rc ?). With udev, you should only see sdb and exactly one sdbX for each

[gentoo-user] confused udev?

2005-11-17 Thread Jorge Almeida
} ... $ mount -t auto /dev/plextor_memstick1 /mnt/maxtor/ $ ls /mnt/maxtor/ lost+found -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

2005-11-17 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Donnerstag, 17. November 2005 10:26 schrieb ext Jorge Almeida: I have a USB memory stick and an external USB box with an IDE disk. I configured udev to assign device names to both items, or so I thought. The external box is plugged

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

2005-11-17 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Donnerstag, 17. November 2005 13:43 schrieb ext Jorge Almeida: CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=y (...) Did you also enable the sub options? No, since none appeared to have much to do with my devices. usb 1-7: new high speed USB device

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

2005-11-17 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Richard Fish wrote: On 11/17/05, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/40-my.rules BUS=scsi, SYSFS{vendor}=PLEXTOR , SYSFS_model=PlexFlash-2*, NAME=plextor_memstick%n BUS=scsi, SYSFS{vendor}=Maxtor 6 , SYSFS_model

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

2005-11-17 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Richard Fish wrote: Can you post your current rules. Also, don't forget Dirk's suggestion regarding BUS==usb instead of scsi. You could use the SYMLINK target instead of changing the name. Something like: BUS==usb ... NAME=%k, SYMLINK=plextor_memstick%n This

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

2005-11-17 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Richard Fish wrote: Hmm, do you RC_DEVICE_TARBALL set in /etc/conf.d/rc? That would cause something like this, and I recommend setting it to no for a pure udev setup. Yes, it was there since the time it was recommended. I changed it and rebooted. The memstick nodes are

[gentoo-user] compiling problems

2005-11-16 Thread Jorge Almeida
offensive opengl pam pdflib png posix python qt readline recode scanner ssl tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xmljpeg zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] compiling problems

2005-11-16 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Richard Fish wrote: Probably not, because it isn't gcc that is failing...it is gtkdoc-mkhtml, and it is running out of memory. You can either merge gtk with USE=-doc, which will skip this step, or use MAKEFLAGS=-j1, which will run only one process at a time, and reduce

[gentoo-user] alsa-lib fails to compile

2005-11-15 Thread Jorge Almeida
qt readline recode scanner ssl tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xmljpeg zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-lib fails to compile

2005-11-15 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Petteri Räty wrote: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112412 So just emerge sync again and it should work. Thank you, will try it ASAP. I'm compiling mozilla-thunderbird now, and it will take a while :) Jorge

Re: [gentoo-user] file with IP?

2005-11-04 Thread Jorge Almeida
.*$//' -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] file with IP?

2005-11-02 Thread Jorge Almeida
Anyone knows whether the current (dynamical) IP is stored in some text file? I know I can find the IP with ifconfig, but if the value were stored in some file I could setup a service to monitor the file for changes and take appropriate actions on change of IP. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] file with IP?

2005-11-02 Thread Jorge Almeida
. Will give it a try next weekend. Until then, I'm on a computer with static IP, and I can't really check the other suggestions. Thanks to everyone who replied. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] usermod broken?

2005-11-02 Thread Jorge Almeida
; but what about the need to edit /etc/group?) -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: top quotes, html mail, and binary jokes

2005-10-31 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, kashani wrote: usefulness for the inarticulate), and top posting (I blame Pine). Why? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: top quotes, html mail, and binary jokes

2005-10-31 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, kashani wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote: On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, kashani wrote: usefulness for the inarticulate), and top posting (I blame Pine). Why? The semi-factual answer is because bottom posting was the norm until Pine appeared on the scene or at least

[gentoo-user] [OT] external conceptronic box

2005-10-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
:)) -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] external conceptronic box

2005-10-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Christoph Gysin wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote: I'm thinking of purchasing a Conceptronic External USB 2.0 Hard Disk Box 3.5 (CHD3U), together with a IDE hd, to use mostly for backups. Anyone has any experience with this? The main question is: Should I worry about

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] external conceptronic box

2005-10-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Christoph Gysin wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote: CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD (USB 2.0) CONFIG_USB_STORAGE (mass-storage) CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD (SCSI-disk) Does the latter mean that some scsi emulation is used? Well, yes, the USB mass-storge driver emulates a SCSI disk

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] external conceptronic box

2005-10-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Richard Fish wrote: One thing: you must be very careful of the power supply and requirements of the HD. I have several models of external chassis that provide 12V 1.7A of power, and this is insufficient for modern (and _large_) disks, and will result in disk read and

Re: [gentoo-user] amanda client

2005-10-24 Thread Jorge Almeida
to write an ebuild _only_ for me. I suppose few gentooers need only the client side of amanda. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] amanda client

2005-10-21 Thread Jorge Almeida
?) -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [gentoo-user-es] unsubscribe

2005-10-21 Thread Jorge Almeida
/ NO! That's a cruel thing to say. You might be nice and point him to the HOWTO of Anthony Gorecky. -- Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables

2005-10-16 Thread Jorge Almeida
science apps, you'll probably want it, and if you're not I probably won't, unless I'm a biologist, and a molecular one. OTH, I'll probably want tetex, which is not in the default list. Regards, Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] translucency bork

2005-10-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
that...) I don't know whether the fault is kwin's or baghira's. I really like the customization QT allows and the looks of baghira... -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf [SOLVED]

2005-10-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: Jorge Almeida schreef: It seems it's a known bug. I emerged nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 and it works now. Glad that worked for you, but please now remember to add nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx to /etc/portage

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf

2005-10-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: One thing to check is do you have any /dev/nv* devices? There was a thread in the forums on this which has a script for recreating them and another thread on this list in which I posted it. That was it. I found the thread, that's why I emerged

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf [SOLVED]

2005-10-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: The solution for your stated preference is to unmask the packages' keyword in /etc/portage/package.keywords, and mask all versions of the package above the one you have now, so that they do not appear if an update occurs and you do not want to

Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables

2005-10-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: Afaik, they are set by /etc/make/profile/make.defaults, and overridden/added to globally by /etc/make.conf, and individually by /etc/portage/package.use. The handbook http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2chap=2 says they come

Re: [gentoo-user] java nightmare

2005-10-12 Thread Jorge Almeida
to run revdep-rebuild -p and then manually re-install the packages that complain (because I don't want it to re-install opera every time). I usually emerge those packages directly with emerge---simple enough unless they're too many. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] java nightmare

2005-10-12 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Dave Nebinger wrote: You might consider the alternate route of removing the offending libjsoundalsa.so file. Of course, rather than simply /bin/rm'ing the thing away you might want to just relocate it temporarily. Then do a revdep-rebuild -p to see if blackdown

Re: [gentoo-user] java nightmare

2005-10-12 Thread Jorge Almeida
._ Thanks for the reply, Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] java nightmare

2005-10-12 Thread Jorge Almeida
, of course. Thanks. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] xorg.conf

2005-10-12 Thread Jorge Almeida
*** (II) UnloadModule: nvidia (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error: no screens found -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf [SOLVED]

2005-10-12 Thread Jorge Almeida
It seems it's a known bug. I emerged nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 and it works now. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] java nightmare

2005-10-12 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Matan Peled wrote: Just emerge alsa-headers and alsa-lib. Did it. It's OK now, no more complaints from revdep-rebuild. I emerged (before) sun-jdk-1.4.2.09, but it didn't change anything. Thank you, Matan and Dave. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

[gentoo-user] imlib error

2005-10-11 Thread Jorge Almeida
Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY revdep-rebuild show no errors... -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] imlib error

2005-10-11 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: Jorge Almeida schreef: I'm trying to emerge kde-meta. It fails with imlib: checking for gif_lib.h... no configure: error: *** GIF header not found *** I don't use kde-meta, but I went to www.gentoo-portage.com to track down what package

[gentoo-user] java nightmare

2005-10-11 Thread Jorge Almeida
that the former USE variable is the latter renamed... What to do? Can I safely ignore the revdep-rebuild messages? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning from Knoppix

2005-10-09 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 8 Oct 2005 09:36:36 +0100 (WEST), Jorge Almeida wrote: So, what went wrong? And is there any way to force use of the new table, other than rebooting? hdparm -z /dev/hda forces the kernel to try to re-read the partition table, but it may

[gentoo-user] partitioning from Knoppix

2005-10-08 Thread Jorge Almeida
) So, what went wrong? And is there any way to force use of the new table, other than rebooting? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning from Knoppix

2005-10-08 Thread Jorge Almeida
, including Gentoo, so that shouldn't be a problem using any modern distro. Same here. The 1024 issue has proven not to be one. Although I keep the /boot partition in the beginning... Robert Crawford Thanks. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning from Knoppix [SOLVED]

2005-10-08 Thread Jorge Almeida
is consistent. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] glib with nptl

2005-09-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Richard Fish wrote: If so, I suspect hardware problems: 1. Dirty/bad CPU fan. Try blowing out your system. 2. Bad memory. In addition to memtest86, there was another (and better) memory test script discussed on this list some weeks ago. Search the archives, or maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] glib with nptl

2005-09-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Richard Fish wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote: I think this happens because my system is broken, God knows where and why. Can you post the contents of /var/tmp/portage/glib-2.6.5/work/glib-2.6.5/config.log? I'm sending it to you off list (4302 lines!) This should

[gentoo-user] glib with nptl

2005-09-12 Thread Jorge Almeida
can I do to provide the missing libraries? (I know my system is somewhat broken, I'm just trying to fix it be emerging some packages I suppose might be relevant...) -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] glib with nptl

2005-09-12 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Frank Schafer wrote: Did you an ``emerge --newuse world'' before you tried to install further packages? Just a thought. I think I've seen nptl mentioned in the installation log of glibc. What if glibc don't know about this? Frank PS: I could be wrong. Don't have a gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] glib with nptl

2005-09-12 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Am Montag, 12. September 2005 12:48 schrieb Jorge Almeida: I added nptl to my USE variables and tried to emerge glib. you must re-emerge glibc, when adding nptl to your USE. glib does not use the nptl USE-variable ;) Yes, I did

[gentoo-user] Can't compile gcc

2005-09-09 Thread Jorge Almeida
doxygen -u I tried with CFLAGS= and still nothing. The system has been giving some trouble, that's why I thought the problem might be with gcc, having run out of ideas (e.g., to compile lshw I had to remove '-pipe' from CFLAGS). I also tried removing /var/tmp/portage/gcc* -- Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't compile gcc

2005-09-09 Thread Jorge Almeida
from your USE flags to keep doxygen from running during the gcc build, or try giving it enough time to complete. Thanks for the reply. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

2005-09-02 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Try again (while logged out of KDE): rm -fr ~/.kde3.4 cp -a ~/.kde3.3 ~/.kde3.4 rm ~/.kde ln -s .kde3.4 ~/.kde Your .kde is a dir, it should be a symlink. Yes, I noticed that on my home box. Will give it a try, when I can (I won't be accessing

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

2005-09-01 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:38:24 +0100 (WEST), Jorge Almeida wrote: When kde started the first time, the wizard showed its face and I told it to quit (didn't want to lose my preferences, of course). You didn't have any preferences, that's why the wizard

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

2005-09-01 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:45:17 +0100 (WEST), Jorge Almeida wrote: rm -fr ~/.kde3.4 cp -a ~/.kde3.3 ~/.kde3.4 Nope. Nope what? Nope, it didn't work? nope you didn't try it? Didn't work. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

2005-09-01 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Norberto Bensa wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: My best guess is that you didn't emerge whichever component is responsible for this. I think it is kdebase-startkde It was emerged. Thanks, Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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